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"Touched by the hands of a spiritual healer"
"My Spirit Guide is with
me all the time, he's standing right beside me now", says healer Clyde
Hughes in a matter-of-fact voice. I glance over his shoulder to
where he's pointing but can't see anything. I don't know what I
expected a spiritual healer to look like, but it wasn't this.
Clyde is a clean-shaven businessman in his 40s wearing a suit and tie
under his white coat. When he's not healing, he runs an industrial
cleaning company and a wedding car firm.
"But healing has always
been my first love, my real passion", he says. After twenty years
practising the craft, he has now set up the Shangrala healing Centre at
his small holding near Llansamlet. He first realised he had a
talent for healing after attending a spiritualist church with his
grandparents.
"I joined a medium circle
where you practise different skills like clairvoyance. I was drawn to
healing and felt good at it, " he explains.
At around the same time
he got involved in karate, eventually become a 2nd Dan black belt.
"I started doing martial
arts which also uses chi energy, the same energy you use in healing."
Years of spiritualist
courses and training followed during which time he discovered his family
of guides, portraits of whom are on the walls of his treatment room.
"We all have guides but
you need tutoring so that you can contact your own guide, " he adds.
A healer works by keeping
the Ki (or Chi) - our natural energy - flowing freely through our
bodies. A session with Clyde starts with him scanning the body by
passing his hands about an inch over your clothes as you lie on his
treatment table.
"I run my hands through
your aura and sometimes can feel hot or cold areas. Energy flows like
blood does. If someone has a blockage it's like looking at a stream with
a stick in it and seeing the water flowing around the stick. I can see
the energy going around these red areas. I push chi energy into
their body. I can see it going it. The client often feels hot or cold
and can get quite drowsy." he adds.
Clyde says he can help
with all sorts of ailments from stomach problems to a lack of
energy. However 90% of his clients come to him suffering from depression
or stress.
"I never interfere with
what doctors are doing. Because its natural, healing can work along side
anything. You haven't even got to believe in it to work, as long as you
want to be healed."
This article, by
Abigail Hart, appeared in the Body & Soul supplement of the South Wales
Evening Post on 20th January 2004. |
